Sentences with phrase «totemic significance»
Because once this graph was given such totemic significance to the political process — ie, once so many arguments about so many futures were seemingly based on this document — its authors should have either managed expectations of science, or fully opened up every aspect of their research to scrutiny.
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Even those to whom we might think to turn for a cool, calm, detached appraisal of the scientific evidence — our very own scientific academies — are bestowing scientific papers with totemic significance.
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One major component of Ailan Kastom relates to the role of turtle and dugong, which have great significance as totemic animals for many Islanders.